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Using the 'exit' delivery method, Environment Variables
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v Windows XP 1. On the Windows system that InfoPrint Select is installed on, right-click My Computer and select Properties. 2. Click the Advanced tab, and click Environment Variables. 3. Click one of the variables listed under System Variables to signal that you want to create a system variable. The variable and its value will appear in the fields at the bottom of the dialog. 4. Clear the Variable and Value fields. 5. In the Variable field, type: pdnotify and in the Value field type: override_select. 6. Click Set. 7. Verify that pdnotify appears in the list of System Variables and not in the User Variables. If it appears in the list of User variables, delete it and start again from step 3. 8. Click OK. 9. Restart your system to make the changes take effect. v Windows 2000 1. On the Windows system that InfoPrint Select is installed on, right-click My Computer and select Properties. 2. In the System Properties window, click the Advanced tab. 3. On the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables. 4. In the System variables box on the Environment Variables dialog, click New. 5. In the Variable Name field, type pdnotify and in the Variable Value field, type override_select. 6. Click OK. 7. Verify that pdnotify appears in the list of System variables and not in the User variables. If it appears in the list of User variables, delete it and start again from step 4. 8. Click OK in the Environment Variables dialog. 9. Click OK in the System Properties window. 10. Restart your system to make the changes take effect. Using the 'exit' delivery method The exit delivery method lets you set up automatic responses to system events beyond just sending a message. When you set the delivery method for a given event to exit, you use the delivery address to specify the explicit path to a script or program on your system. Whenever that event occurs, InfoPrint Manager runs the script or program you specify. For example, if the InfoPrint Manager server runs low on disk space, the disk-space-low event generates a message for the system administrator. The administrator then has to do something to clean up the disk so InfoPrint Manager can continue to run effectively. However, using the exit delivery method can automate that process by launching a "disk clean up" script. The administrator can still receive the message, but will know that the script is already working on the problem. By default, when you use the exit delivery method, InfoPrint Manager only passes two values along to the script or program: the message number of the event that occurred and the text of the message. As a result, the command line that the exit Chapter 10. Using InfoPrint Manager notifications 123